Max Roach Quartet & Abbey Lincoln, BRT TV Studio, Schaarbeek, Belgium, January 10, 1964 (Colorized)

Presentation Jan Gheysen 00:00
We Insist! Freedom Now Suite:
Intro 2:30
Driva Man 4:50
Triptych (Prayer/Protest/ Peace) 9:58
All Africa 19:09
Freedom Day 25:27
Lineup:
Max Roach : drums
Abbey Lincoln : vocals
Clifford Jordan : tenor saxophone
Coleridge Perkinson : piano
Eddie Khan : bass

[@RonCarterBassist]

👍🏾👍🏾

[@thoughtsforthebuilders]

Ron again ...! Good to know I'm digging the right stuff

[@danielealfredomarano5465]

Maestro Ron Carter❤❤❤

[@drumtwo4seven]

used to be a fan

[@bobbysands6923]

Mr. Carter, you continue to inspire me! Have a great Holiday this year!

[@danifont4761]

@@thoughtsforthebuilders Consider that you might be the only one who knows what the "right stuff" is

[@DavidHahnMusic]

The best TV spots featuring these music GREATS are -- or mostly -- come from Europe where they were respected for the excellent artists they are [were]. Just gold to have access to this...

[@howardrussell3919]

My Mother took me and my sister to see Max Roach and Abby Lincoln at a place called The Aqua Lounge on 52nd street in West Philly in the 60's. Me and my sister were like WHAAAAT...! I've never forgotten that show. Thanks Mom....!

[@DrBaldhead]

Lucky!

[@joijaxx]

Lucky you!

[@paulinacontreras4612]

que suerte

[@jorgekordon5159]

I know that feel (whaaaaaat) jaja, well, I am knowing tha feel with this abstract jazz ♥

[@rozchristopherson648]

I'm 63. I remember Abbey Lincoln. She was wonderful. So talented and naturally beautiful. She also acted. RIP. 🧡🙏

[@5hyguy42]

You’re a legend for listening to this in 2024

[@TheWorshipful2008]

For love of Ivy I have all of her discography. Just check my channel in a few.

[@phrayzar]

I feel very privileged to be able to step back in time with this powerful performance. It's heavy.

[@user-ke8if6ri9r]

I have my Dad's jazz record collection. My Mom saved the collection when they divorced. Max Roach,John Coltrane,Stan Getz,Shelly Mann,etc...

[@misspurpura]

Celestial Father, Give my family, those I love, your church and me your messages, Take care of us, Help us to have sentinels and deliver us from every enemy army, Warn us and protect us from all danger, Help us to act guided by you, Deliver us from death, Help us listen to you, Help us save lives, Help us warn others of what is coming, Deliver us from all captivity, Help us listen to you, Free us from being responsible for the death of others, Save us, Give us abundant life, Deliver us from our sins, Help us to turn away from our wicked behavior, Help us to repent of that in which we still fail, Make us just, Take into account all our acts of justice, Help us to return everything we have been lent and to restore everything we have stolen, Help us obey your laws that give life and stop doing evil, Don't bring up any of our past sins, Help us do the right thing, Protect our cities from all attack, Place your hand on us, Give us our voice back, Comfort us, Make us grow in number, Deliver us from eating meat with blood and from worshiping idols, Deliver us from murder and adultery, Deliver us from all violent death, Save us from being attacked or devoured by wild animals, Deliver us from all illness, Take care of our territory, do not allow it to be destroyed, Fill us with your power, Deliver us from arrogance, Deliver our territory from sin, Deliver us from murmuring, Help us to be sincere, not to pretend, Make them listen to our words, Free us from having our mouths full of sensual words and only looking for money, Help us to be entertained, Help us sing to you, Give us a beautiful voice, Help us make good music with an instrument, Help us to be excellent prophets, I ask and declare all of the above in the mighty name of Christ Jesus. Inspired by Ezekiel 33. Ask the God of Israel what, how, when, where, why, with whom and for what, from each verse of your Bible, and he will surprise you.

[@MrMusicbyMartin]

Superb music played by people with style and class.

[@TraceTaylor]

Thank you for uploading this to KZbin 🧡❣️🎼🙏🏼

[@AjayJetty]

This kind of music really shows how we are going so backwards in music lol, the more I dig in, the more innovation I find in Jazz music

[@vickiebonner4181]

😢 so backwards 🎵

[@bucketofbarnacles]

This is extraordinary. Abbey Lincoln was a force of nature, an expression of the beauty and wonder of the universe.

[@user-ok5hh7lg2x]

AMAZING JAZZ HISTORICAL FOOTAGE Abbey Lincoln with the Max Roach Quartet, January, 1964 in Belgium for a Studio performance; this remarkable session now a treasure display of where jazz DIDN’T go, and perhaps couldn’t have gone. Herein presented: jazz as experimentation, minimalism, atonality, ‘tribal-musicality’ undertones combined with a almost purist disassociation (negation) of the musicological (reportorial) legacies of Ella Fitzgerald/Sarah Vaughan Shirley Basse + The Bebop Legacy; Roach’s quartet fronted by Lincoln questioning the standard jazz lines (1940 to 1960ish) of combinatory complexity, harmonic riffing, and reflex hyper-emotionalism, replaced with baser, non-baroque effusions, repetition, atonal inflections TO CALL OUT ‘standardized jazz’ with their authenticating intellectual choices and NOT subjective emotional reservoirs… THIS TV MINI CONCERT really give the 21st listener-viewer a great overview of the early 1960s experimental jazz concepts WHICH IN THE MAIN were not (in aggregate) adopted. The reason was a combination of excessive experimentation (blanking of the melody-structures) AND most traces of ANY commercial viability was seen to be cancelled out - unnecessarily so - by excessive bridges of minimalism or numbing beat repetitions. Have a listen for yourself.

[@bigblue7643]

HEAVY! Put of curiosity, what philosophers do you read or follow?

[@user-ok5hh7lg2x]

The Idealists, Plato, and though I dislike their politics Virilio, Baudrillard, etc. @@bigblue7643

[@tomgeorgearts]

At the same time, the first song reminded me of 'Strange Fruit' and Abby's pained but non-virtuosic singing is quite Billie Holiday-esque. A stunning complement to an earlier musical commentary on racism in America.

[@loganperry]

Damn right.

[@simonhoscheit1088]

Un grand moment du jazz et de la Liberté ! Le maestro Max Roach accompagné de la grande Abbey Lincoln ...

[@timcharles5476]

Max Roach demonstrates why he was regarded as the drummer par excellence in modern jazz. Playing with him must be the equivalent of riding in a Rolls Royce.

[@jerrykitich3318]

Two Rolls Royces

[@keyinsights3]

Modern jazz? Enlighten me.

[@berachtdorian6191]

​@@keyinsights3Bebop and what came after it. Music that was harsh, staccato, and cool as opposed to the sweet, swinging, and lowdown music that came before it.

[@otaviosegala]

❤ 1964? Eu estava nascendo e esses artistas já mostravam esta "linguagem" nova. Até agora é nova. Eu compreendo e sinto esta "novidade" porque a genuína e qualificada música brasileira me fez entender a Arte de verdade. / Sis Abbey e MAX Roach Quartet são fenomenais. osegala - brazilian composer. 2024 03 07

[@beeshor1]

Clifford Jordan never plays a wrong note or a misplaced phrase. He is far too underrated in the history of great tenors among rank and file jazz folks.

[@sommelierramon]

I do not underrate Clifford Jordan , okay ? Love it and his play !

[@user-qd2zt3hf9r]

I do agree!!!

[@akanfoyawu1072]

Yes indeed.

[@Themainmel]

I knew she was an OG in the industry when I was introduced to her as a kid in Mo' Better Blues. I assumed she was an actress like Ruby Dee and Leslie Uggams. This is my first time seeing her perform. Very nice!

[@josepheaton8137]

Speaks deeply about the pain of oppression

[@seattlebeard]

Max Roach is TIGHT!!! ❤❤

[@n.e.p.eugeniel2665]

Abby Abby Abby... What a LOVELY surprise you are..... inside and out..Such Spirit!

[@liamwatson5125]

Making animal noises too.

[@TERRA8581]

Abbey……🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

[@jerrybauer8108]

I saw Abbey who was a very sophisticated voice in person. Clifford was a close friend and visited me several times at my home.

[@jenspollheide7026]

Hallo Jerry Bauer, nice to find your comment here! You're a true music expert, glad you're still making your voice heard.

[@soundmindbodydivine]

Find this one: 'Money Jungle' Studio album by Charles Mingus, Duke Ellington, and Max Roach You're welcome.

[@PerryPapanier]

Max Roach is one of my all-time favorites. I was lucky enough to meet him in NYC. Saw him plenty of times in concert n with Abby Lincoln. Once, i spotted him attending a King Crimson concert. He is one of the giants of the 20th century.

[@charlescasey9799]

Did drum clinics with max roach at jacks drum shop in Boston in the fifties greats have broadcaster drums in green with gold plating. Never forgot it

[@NotYetBabe]

Opening song I see, feel & agree with the anger towards all who enabled & profited from the slave trade. This is truly great art.

[@Dr.SoulBrother]

The Souls of Black Folk!!!

[@paulrodden3773]

its true what u said, but we as humans have that, we just lost our souls a long the way. the only culture that exists in America now is from the African.

[@jody8526937]

@@paulrodden3773 that is so wrong.. but ok.

[@jeannetteduette6704]

Paul Rodden Speak for yourself and your family! Although my parents were from the deep South, they told and showed us who we are. Exposed us to our culture as well as other cultures at an early age our teachers did the same. Our teachers back then did not have their hands tied with teaching facts, Man, our Parents guided our Souls I don't know what happened to you? By the way I'm 71 years old Black American woman!

[@paulrodden3773]

@@jeannetteduette6704 sorry, i dident express myself properly , im white irish as white as one can be wat im trying to say is that the only culture worth anything in america is from the black community, ive been listening to early jazz all my life and get the feeling of pure humanity from my jazz heros.

[@theetravellover]

​@paulrodden3773 I believe people are starting to see how Black people worldwide have entertained the masses. I am glad you enjoy this style of music. 😊 I listen to many genres myself that don't originate in Black or African culture but I do enjoy them best.

[@bobbysands6923]

I have been blessed to see a lot of the great drummers from this era, including Max. And while all of them were great guys, Max seemed to be the consummate gentleman, like he could have been a diplomat or a preacher. Never mind his amazing ability on the drums. Great and rare post. Thank you!

[@bluesviewmusic7500]

try...in the early 60's to publish something that exemplified the intellect of the black american jazz musician...never in America...but those Europeans had a clue. This is an amazing piece...the opening lyrics alone brought me to tears...the haunting vocalizations later on held me there.

[@mazzoanV2]

Europeans always treat black Americans better than the black citizens of their own countries

[@davegatchell]

* Blue Note

[@ityou5874]

Right on.

[@Dave_Hepler]

I remember hearing Abby Lincoln on the road in Midwest ( doing “Ten Cents A Dance” and loved her completely unique voice. Got to hear her live at Madame Walker theatre in nineties- she was wonderful-love hearing her young for first time now w Max Roach et company!!!

[@burleybater]

Yes - I saw her live in 1979 in Toronto's Basin Street club. She did a stunning version of "Whistling in the Dark" that haunts me still. The material here is powerful. Gorgeous.

[@DaWu1623]

Yet another indelible moment in our collective and ineffable traversal of this 'ole Earth🙏🏾

[@IanCampbell777]

A life-changing experience!

[@Sunra77]

I wish I could get my younger brothers n sisters in to this kind of music. This is the REAL TRAP MUSIC !!! We are some powerful 9 ether beings , most of us have no idea !!!!

[@v.a.993]

amen!

[@bobblues1158]

Really great presentation. Dramatic scenography. Clifford Jordan is so soulful. This entire concert has so much connection to the realities of Black America.

[@jaygrain2512]

Ok yeah

[@user-qd2zt3hf9r]

Yes indeed!!!

[@danielcombs3207]

What a great band love the performance and Abbey Lincoln’s vocals.. That drum set is absolutely beautiful!

[@majus1990]

thanks for putting up this unique piece of art in such good quality

[@wevegraysquaw7855]

wow clifford jordans tone and language was elite. love the aound/tones ... 10/10

[@lancenicholas8520]

My God!!... This is amazing and beautiful!!!

[@georgefielderthe2ndaccount955]

They're not made like this anymore. Max Roach was superb. I know Kenny Clarke was proud of Max' contribution. I remember seeing Clifford Jordan in Meridian, Mississippi in like 1973.

[@nataliebrownbrown3992]

Wow! This unique musical concert/theatre performance grabbed my attention & kept me with it to the finish. This performance from Max Roach, Abby Lincoln & his beautiful quartet is the JAWN!🥁❤️🎷🎹🎤

[@roxanne5766]

Great acting from her in "For the Love of Ivy" and "Nothing but a Man"

[@steveh7866]

I have this almost irresistible urge to stand up from my chair and clap and shout, "Bravo!" Quite a different performance from the vinyl. Somehow less abrasive but even more emotionally charged. Wonderful. Thank you for posting.

[@user-lo2fx6kn1j]

当時としては独創的、前衛的な作品だったのではないのですか。 FREEDOM NOW、、、その意図が伝わってくる演奏です。 JAZZの世界を超えている。さぞ、評判になったことでしょう。 貴重な映像をありがとう。

[@tanialehmannn9053]

el solo de Abbey a partir del minuto 15 y algo más.... es tremendo, impredecible, fuera de toda clasificación.

[@andersc6593]

Commenting so the algorithm gives me more of this

[@BishopEddie5443]

I got to meet Max Roach. Was a pleasure!

[@kevp9601]

BEST "NEW" KZbin VIDEO IN THE UNIVERSE

[@emmanuelpaxonndupasquier3094]

A Master Piece ! Max Roach created so many guenuine music .And this movie expose with full emphasy the deep soul of the black freedom.

[@carlop3019]

My personal teenage super hero: immense Max Roach!

[@psyne000]

Deep Narrative here - Listen Hard!

[@kincamell2]

Stellar waves of sound. Ps Nothing But a Man is an amazing movie.

[@user-ol8su4qq3g]

Husband, Wife and Friends Great together

[@ronaldunkel2681]

Brilliant jazz. Very good clip with excellent sound. Bloody good song with Abby’s brilliant singing. And what can one say; Max is Max! Dig this beauty folks. G’day & Cheers!

[@quinnmurph2750]

Listening with sound connected through my stereo system. The sound reproduction is very good.

[@dylangatenby9928]

Hey Ronald Max is actually one of my favorite drummers for jazz. His phrasing and playing is so melodic and I just adore his kind of style.😮Cheers!!

[@ronaldunkel2681]

@@dylangatenby9928 I agree Dylan. Max was among the groundbreaking new style drummers post WW2, like Art Blakey. Thsat changed the old swing band style to the new bop/hard-bop drumming. Never saw Max but did see Art Blakey, first time in 1959 and twice in the late 70’s, with his sublime Jazz Messengers. They were truly brilliant jazz years Dylan. Be well & Cheers!

[@YankeeClippa]

Great stuff! All of them!

[@2233petey]

The sound quality is awesome, especially the sax.

[@emmanuelpaxonndupasquier3094]

I heard it long time ago on a vinyl ,and I was stunned about it. To see, so well, it is just marvellous. And Max Roach is so clear in everything he did, so intentional and precise. A great musician as his partners.

[@jeanmarcpare2119]

Excellent sound recording, very innovative jazz concept......

[@timwhiteside9971]

absolutely mind blowing what a band !

[@Boriskrasno9412]

Je ne connaissais pas ,quelle belle surprise ❤ On est dans le génie des années 60 ,merci pour la vidéo…

[@hepphepps8356]

Just the sound of the voice of the presenter in the beginning. They had such fantastic microphones in normal use back then! You can still buy it for $7000 new from the manufacturer, but the current presenter will use a $400 lavalier. Miss some magic!

[@goeroe1536]

The registration is immaculate

[@markus_knoedel]

Wow. Thank you so much for this lovely time, as hard the music was. Freedom!

[@josephanderson6410]

Max Roach ! 8:18 on the clock , which is a number , that is the sign of the beat, that most influenced hip hop. Peace to Max ! #rojoforever! ❤ Joe DRT ❤🎉🎉

[@kevp9601]

OH YEAH ! MAX ROACH WAS ON "FIRE" ! ! ❤‍🔥❤‍🔥❤‍🔥❤‍🔥❤‍🔥❤‍🔥❤‍🔥❤‍🔥❤‍🔥❤‍🔥

[@PierreVeniot]

What a 5/4 beat with love and meditative intensity... I can hear Clifford Jordan great sound.

[@leslielocke9795]

Fabulous Band and Singer

[@leslielocke9795]

I always said I wish that young People today could Bring this Music Back we have the Talent Let’s Go Les

[@sommelierramon]

There really is a good bunch of nowadays young musicians that do great. They listened to things like this also . you know ? @@leslielocke9795

[@sommelierramon]

Yes the talent is there ! Would we have now in Europe the better ? @@leslielocke9795

[@lonely_beaner4144]

when she went AHHHHHHHHHH I felt that

[@user-qu1jh8xj3o]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤from South of France

[@MrDastardly]

Max Roach. A diamond!! 👏👏👏

[@cvdfeen]

So good! And great sound. One nice mic each...

[@vivalaleta]

Gave me chills.

[@adamhecko4471]

Such a powerful performance

[@lessismore4470]

Great people, great music. Thank you. Greetings from Poland.

[@kevp9601]

I LOVE IT A LOT

[@mediascapes2011]

Fantastic!

[@tonysmith5878]

I OWN SOME OF THIS BEAUTIFUL LADIES RECORDS ON VINYL. LIFE IS GREAT.... I'M BLESSED.

[@Vickielindstrander]

凄くかっこいいです。

[@lorenzoblum868]

Thank you for sharing. I get to see one of my favourite singer, Abbey Lincoln. That peculiar yet "sharp" voice. Didn't know she was married to Max Roach. This is very unique. Unclassifiable. Freedom day🙏 New subscriber here.

[@ReRe_22]

Absolutely phenomenal! A wonder of wonders🤌🏿

[@honestlydontknowwhatimdoin8405]

brave and courageous as hell to write and perform this at any point in American history, much less the 60s. did they ever perform this stateside?

[@m.g.kroger]

Thank you for sharing! Very good quality video, an amazing document of the great jazz master Max Roach!

[@user-uz4sm7hd8b]

Having an old vinyl recording of we insist, I never imagined a u - tube version existed. The whole story told by the artists brought tears to my eyes. Both performances take you there .Full of feelings and a reflection of the human being and the story behind the music Fantastic.

[@createprogress8732]

Amazing!

[@mharm1017]

Not only is the music forward, look at Sis Abbey! An Afro puff in 1964?! And Brothers' hair ain't conked?! Oh yeah...

[@user-qd2zt3hf9r]

1964 was the first time that I saw some of the Brothas&sistas wearing the Afro hair style. The sixties was the time of black consciousness. Brother Malcolm &King were laying down the message. I personally think that many of the young Brothas& sistas today & their parents as well need to adhere to the message of black consciousness. We're not out of the woods yet ..

[@hellbooks3024]

Everybody was every which way in 1964 in New York when I was nine. Whatever you wanted to look like, whatever you wanted to see, you could look like and see. It was all there.

[@user-qd2zt3hf9r]

@@hellbooks3024I was fifteen years old in 1964 but I was in Chicago in highschool. I feel you though. What a time that was!!!

[@jeanettesdaughter]

That was the beginning of the end of bring colored. We came out of apartheid cultures ready to be black, proud to be and to look like what we were: out of Africa not Europe and not Asia. No turning back. Some are still on that journey, some still undecided, captive of the Eurasian cultures but just as many have arrived. Power to the people! Bet on Black.

[@Raellives]

@@user-qd2zt3hf9r60 yrs of Democrats ..... just sayin

[@zak-a-roo264]

PERFECTION

[@sommelierramon]

Lovely colorized ! TOP Belgium : thank you, neighbours ! Great ! I'm NL so neighbour.

[@lucianovargas6677]

Max + Abbey = Genius 🎼🥁🎤🎼

[@liamwatson5125]

The two got married.

[@DrBaldhead]

Insane talent

[@beeshor1]

Coleridge Perkinson!!

[@pacofernandez4591]

Fantastic! 😍

[@bastiendupont1392]

indescriptible !!! un trésor

[@lucianoinvernizzi5027]

Luciano invernizzi, I met max roach in the south of Italy, in soverato,,south of tall, and we played there, and received his compliments 😊

[@waxeye6488]

Mind blown!

[@misternewyorkknickerbocker4604]

MASTERPIECE

[@michaelwosslert9524]

Americas classical music. Brilliant!

[@alimantado373]

Not American but Black music, They shunned the Artists as Race music, Why do you think these greats fled to play in Europe , where they had more respect!. There is no Classical American music?

[@igorlacerdamedronha]

Simplesmente esplendido!

[@MsDeeke]

I haven't been this much in awe in some time.

[@jamesnorris9637]

What a treasure

[@StephenS-2024]

This is amazing. Thank you.

[@elbosco8715]

Esta gente sabía lo que hacía. Andaban volando.

[@AlbertoGomez-oi5ou]

masterpiece